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This is sort of related to my other thread, but its a whole separate question so I figured I'd make a new one. I'm getting some plumbing done soon, and part of that is to make this pipe that is attached to the TRP valve on the water heater much, much lower to the ground so I don't fall getting...

I have a gas hot water heater, and today I realized when the flame sensor gave up the ghost, that when its out, I have no hot water. I now need to wait 2 to 4 days for Rheem to ship me a new one. Almost everything in my house has redundancy, but not hot water! * For heating and cooling I have...

I have a set of 4 3/8 impact extensions. On my favorite one the spring on the ball bearing has failed, so sockets just fall off It says lifetime warranty How easy is their warranty? Just bring it in and they will swap it? Do I need to bring the whole set or just the single item?

I'm in Houston, TX and I'm looking for some ideas on how to heat my garage during extreme winter freezes Some points * I have a "large" stockpile of wood * I have a 25kw NG Generator * I have a backup 7kw gasoline generator I was thinking of perhaps a mini split, which would also get my AC...

First thing I noticed is that it has a small, crappy 400CCA Continental battery. This was a concern right away, as my neighbor has a smaller air cooled generator with the same battery, and only got 1 and a half years out of it.

Any experts here can give me any advice on if this will cause me a problem. With how much space was above the wall and where the lineset needed to go, there was no way I could get it right down and into the hole in the wall to the inside unit. So I had to make this loop. Its a 9000BTU Fujitsu...

I had no idea Gasoline was so expensive, and that NG was THAT much cheaper, and how much more sense Diesel makes to Gasoline. I estimated a 3kw constant load when running on a portable generator, and a higher 6.25kw load when on my larger NG unit with unlimited fuel. Starting to wonder if I...

Question for you electrical experts. Powering my house with an interlock kit from a generator is easy enough What bamboozles are there if I wanted to throw a 50a cord over to my neighbors house, and power his house, from my house (Which would be powered by generator) I've never been a...

About a year ago I got a set of DeWalt drill bits after project farm rated them the best, and they were on sale at HD When I was working on my trailer, the hardly used 5/16 bit just snapped right in two when I was drilling through some metal. It was in reverse and I was getting it out of the...

Maybe this is a weird one, but has anyone trenched compressed air into a shed? I have a 26 Gallon compressor in my garage, its a Kobalt I got on sale from lowes, and so far I've been very pleased with it. Its not loud at all, and it does everything I need it to do...

I have a Champion Model 100520 8750w Peak / 7000w running generator. Right as I got it, I added the Nashfuel Tri-fuel kit so that I could run it on NG if I wanted to. After getting the natural gas flow set just right, it runs great on natural gas even with a crappy 1/2" Grill gas hose. Today I...

Question for you smart guys here on portable generator maintenance. I have a cheap Champion portable generator I keep in the garage. I keep it full to the brim of gas with Sta-Bil added (Yes, non ethanol gas would be best, but I'm not going out of my way to buy some) and I make sure to run the...

Last year during the Freeze we had here in Texas I lost a Lemon, Lime, Orange, Satsuma, Grapefruit and Mandarin tree I don't want that to happen again. I currently only have three citrus trees. My plan was to get a few cheap space heaters and cover the trees with drop cloths and then have the...

I just picked up this meter https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CX6VHWV/?tag=atomicindus08-20 So far, pretty great. There is a coupon for it right now, I paid $68 all in a week ago. I really can't justify spending $300 on a Fluke when this works. For someone not doing installs every day, so far I'm...

Details here: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/first-time-welding-electrical-questions.490789/ I'm looking for your vote if I should use some old copper 6/3 Wire. Its NM wire, not NM-B Wire. I will strip the jacket and run in conduit. Its rated at 60c Install will not be inspected...

I've been wanting to get into welding for a long time, I've been reading the pro's and cons of each type, the best welder yada yada yada, but I never end up with a welder. So I just bit the bullet and ordered a Titanium Stick 225 Welder. For better or for worse, that will be my welder. The...

I'm looking for suggestions on how to make a fence like this, climb proof (Or at last make it harder!) I constructed this fence around my AC units, and I made sure the pickets were on the outside on the front, but since the side backs up to a neighbors driveway I decided to make the pickets...

I got myself a dual zone Daikin mini split for my office and bedroom. Its an 18K outdoor unit with 2 x 9K indoor units Damn, this thing is AWESOME. It has literally halved my electric usage some days, and it makes the room much more comftorble, as you just set it to a setpoint, and it sits...

Thought you guys might find this interesting. I got myself a Generac RG027 Generator, its an 1800RPM Liquid Cooled Natural Gas Generator with a 2.4l Mitsubishi Engine in it. Very cool! But the monitoring sucked. Not anymore I put together a Raspberry Pi 4 with a custom hat someone has created...

I currently have a small cheap $80 Ryobi electric pressure washer, works alright for washing the cars but no way it will run a surface cleaner for my driveway It seems the general consensus is Honda Engine (Duh) and a Cat pump. I know NOTHING about Pumps. I'd also love an Alu frame so it can't...